On 10/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > * app <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> So, if not X, then how about some higher (or eperhaps lower?) layer > >> libraries (qtk? Qt? Gecko?) ported so that porting the 10 (or 100) > >> best known FOSS packages (whatever they are) would become more > >> possible? > > > > Porting libs like gdk to plan9 would be cool. > > > > But you shouldn't forget that many libs should be heavily > > restructured and cleaned up. > > > >> How about a project to take something like Firefox and restructure the > >> whole sw so that best modules would be kept and other modules re- > >> implemented /dev/draw way and Rio way? > > > > Huh, that's an really HUGE plan. I'm a little bit involved > > in moz and know what I'm talking about ;-O > > > > Why not start with something a bit smaller. ...like making SSH2 work. We > use plan9 for work a lot and not having SSH2 working is a large hassle.
I just asked about this the other day... Wondering where it is :-) I'm not sure what's left to be done to make it go... Might even throw some money in the pot for someone to finish that project > as the crypto application is a bit beyond me. I think bounties for Open Source projects are neat, until someone decides not to maintain it :-) However, they can sometimes get the ball rolling in a way that lets novices help with maintenance after the "experts" have moved on. Dave > --- Marina Brown (tsygry) > > > > > > > cu > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: > > http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce > > Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: > > http://patches.metux.de/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
